Study Of Feasibility For Implementing The System Of Education Voucher In China

since 1980's, educational undertaking in our country has achieved a lot of development rapidly. But in the course of education development, there has been hosts of problems, such as the shortage of education funds, the difference of accepting education's chances between cities and countries, lacking of the better atmosphere for education competition, which has restricted education development's scale, rate, and quality. Therefore, these questions: how to make the country's limited education funds exert its function as possible as it can, make the more students of school age go to school and improve the quality of education, are becoming the focal points on which society and educational administrative authorities give much concern. Under this very background, the educational committee of Changxing county, Zhejiang province, implemented formally the system of education voucher in May, 2001, which gave rise to the intensive concern and arguments from educational circles, news and media and even economics world. All that we discussed above are becoming the writing's original intention of this thesis.The nature and international, internal background of education voucher are introduced in the first part of the thesis. The system of education voucher was raised by Friedman Milton in the book- government' function in education, who is the famous economist of the new liberalism in America in 1955. in response to the lower quality and rate of the public schools' system that caused by the government monopolized the public education, and demanding that market competition mechanism and patriarch-free-choosing mechanism enter school system, in order to improve the quality of public education in America. The thesis, regarding the developed country, America, as the representative, and taking the plan of education voucher of Milwaukee and ECCT as an example, introduces the current situation of the plan of education voucher in America; makes a systematic analysis and study for the background, patten, feature and moving course of the plan of education voucher in Colombia. The system of education voucher was put forward in Changxing county, Zhejiang province, in China in the autumn in 2001. it is an system pattern for concerning the weaker group and its main purpose is to reach the education impartial. In order to reach its aim, the system pattern is divided into two parts to practice. Now theimplementing of the policy of education voucher in Changxing county has exerted the positive effect on reforming invest system, adjusting education structure and promoting social impartial, etc. at the same time, there is a certain limitations in this kind of system, especially in the amount, way and fund source of providing education voucher, which are waiting for improving.The second part of the thesis will make a detailed analysis for the necessity of carrying out the system of education voucher in the period of the basic education of our country.First, the background of " the-poor-country-carry-out-the-big-education" provided the effective platform for putting forward the system of education voucher in China, and the system can decrease the situation of seriously lacking of education fund, Second, it is useful to promote the harmonious development of basic education between cities and countries, and change the situation of rural economy, and help and improve the situation of weaker groups and education and achieve the same opportunities for education. Third, carrying out education voucher can promote the fair competitions between schools and make education suitable to the demands of the market economy. At last, it is beneficial to change the government' role in education.The third part of the thesis will state the strategies for carrying out the system of education voucher.the practice of education voucher in China can not just "copy" the western patterns, but, concerning the actual situation of China, according to the systematic conditions of the present economy, educational scale, political, culture, develop gradually, from testing to populariz...